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It doesn't show a blue screen before rebooting. If you read the article you'll see that it's a tortured attempt to redefine any kind of freeze as a 'BSOD' in order to hang this label on Apple.

This is extremely likely to be a paid piece placed by a competitor.

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It's a blue screen.

http://www.imore.com/ios-7-blue-screen-death-caught-video-wi...

> This is extremely likely to be a paid piece placed by a competitor.

Oh, the way that statement can be interpreted.

If you read the article, it says that the screen actually turns blue for few seconds and goes blank.

Moreover, even Windows has not shown me the blue screen in a long while ( since Windows 7, now on 8.1 ), but still people call the restarts BSOD. Get over it.

Although very rarely, it does show the BSOD in Windows 7 for me. I think it's like 3 to 4 times in total, in past 2 years.

Yeah I know the Blue screen comes on Windows 7 ( and 8 ) Just that it has not happened to me ( I have had the crashes )

The default setting is to reboot, without showing BSOD.

Your statement was a little disingenuous, because they changed the color to red. I had an RSOD in Win7 about a week ago due to a driver issue.

There's nothing to get over. The article is a dishonest attempt to smear iOS with the reputation for reliability that was associated with early Windows,

If there is a blue screen, and it crashes after showing it, it can be called the BSOD.

Anyway, it's official, it's on Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death#iPhone_5S :)

None of that makes it any less dishonest.

Two days ago, my phone's screen turned a snowy blue-on-black; what I suspect is the LCD's test pattern when no data is being sent to it. Then the phone rebooted, showing the Apple logo and then the unlock screen.

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